Visorbearer

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Haeckel Trochilidae Augastes lumachella.jpg

| taxon = Augastes

| authority = Gould, 1849

| type_species = Trochilus superbus{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80 |title= Trochilidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}

| type_species_authority = Vieillot, 1822

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 2, see text

}}

The visorbearers are hummingbirds in the bitypic genus Augastes in the family Trochilidae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=2 January 2020 }}

{{Species table |genus=Augastes |authority-name= Gould |authority-year=1849 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Hooded visorbearer|binomial=Augastes lumachella

|image=File:Hooded Visorbearer Augastes lumachella (cropped).jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Lesson |authority-year= 1839 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Brazil

|range-image=File:Augastes lumachella map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Hyacinth visorbearer|binomial=Augastes scutatus

|image=File:Beija-flor-de-gravata-verde (Augastes scutatus) (2).JPG |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Temminck |authority-year= 1824 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Brazil

|range-image=File:Augastes scutatus map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on

|A. s. scutatus

|A. s. ilseae

|A. s. soaresi

}}

References

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